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Lonely monkey adopts chicken at zoo

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A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.

Niv, an Indonesian black macaque, has spent the past week caressing, cleaning and playing with the bird at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv.

The bird, which doesn’t have a name, could easily escape through the bars but chooses to stay near Niv.

Zookeepers say the chicken “seems very happy to have found a surrogate mother. At night they sleep together.”

A few months ago, Niv attempted to adopt a previous chicken, but it rejected her advances.

Seemingly unlikely animal friendships are often the result of different species being put together by humans.

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  1. I love this monkey is it a rebel I likes rebels and also I also also like mince patty and the watermelon but the monkey is like so cool like my musically ???

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